Embryonic motor axon development in the severe SMA mouse

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2900-2909

  Mcgovern, Vicki L ^a   Gavrilina, Tatiana O ^a   Beattie, Christine E ^a   Burghes, Arthur H M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPINAL CORD;

DANIO RERIO; MUS;

EID: 50849110114     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddn189     Document Type: Article

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